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Repetition
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Repetition1) Construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equal amount and of the same kind; in such case the latter is considered a repetition of the former, and the legatee is entitled to one only. 2) Civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has not been performed 3) Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same as Recolement.
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Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Repetition
1) Construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equal amount and of the same kind; in such case the latter is considered a repetition of the former, and the legatee is entitled to one only. 2) Civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has not been performed 3) Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same as Recolement.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Testator
One who has made a testament or will.
Testamentary
Belonging to a testament; as a testamentary gift; a testamen-tary guardian, or one appointed by will or testament; letters testamentary, or a writing under seal given by an officer lawfully authorized, granting power to one named as executor to execute a last will or testament.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Legatee
A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Mistake
Contracts. An error committed in relation to some matter of fact affecting the rights of one of the parties to a contract.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Reading
The act of making known the contents of a writing or of a printed document.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Deposition
Ecclesiastical. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Recolement
French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition.
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Repeal
Legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act.
Repertory
This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found.
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Renvoi
In the conflict of laws, the French term renvoi refers to the application of the conflict rules of one state by the court or tribunal of another state, in order to solve a conflict of laws problem. Renvoi developed in the nineteenth century, as a reaction to the territorial theory, in an effort to secure greater uniformity and equity in conflicts decisions.
Reparation
The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted.
Repartione, facienda, writ de
The name of an ancient writ which lies by one or more joint tenants against the other joint tenants, or by a person owning a house or building against the owner of th; adjoining building, to compel the reparation of such, joint property.
Repeal
Legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act.
Repertory
This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found.
Repetition
Replacement cost
The estimated cost of construct, at current prices, a building with utility equivalent to the building being appraised, using modern materials and current standards, design, and layout, and quality of workmanship, and embodying all the subject's deficiencies, superadquacies, and obsolescence.
Replacement volumes
Volumes which replace books and their pocket parts when the pocket parts cause the books to become too bulky.
Repleader
Practice. When an immaterial issue has been formed, the court will order the parties to plead de novo, for the purpose of obtaining a better issue this is called a repleader.
Replegiare
To redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by putting in legal sureties.
Replevin
Remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and chattels.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Repetition
1) Construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equal amount and of the same kind; in such case the latter is considered a repetition of the former, and the legatee is entitled to one only. 2) Civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has not been performed 3) Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same as Recolement.
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Testator
One who has made a testament or will.
Testamentary
Belonging to a testament; as a testamentary gift; a testamen-tary guardian, or one appointed by will or testament; letters testamentary, or a writing under seal given by an officer lawfully authorized, granting power to one named as executor to execute a last will or testament.
Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Legatee
A legatee is a person to whom a legacy is given by a last will and testament.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Mistake
Contracts. An error committed in relation to some matter of fact affecting the rights of one of the parties to a contract.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Reading
The act of making known the contents of a writing or of a printed document.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Deposition
Ecclesiastical. law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offence, and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Recolement
French law. The reading and reexamination by a witness of a de-position, and his persistance in the saine, or his making such alteration, as his better recollection may enable him to do, after having read his deposition.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Repeal
Legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act.
Repertory
This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Renvoi
In the conflict of laws, the French term renvoi refers to the application of the conflict rules of one state by the court or tribunal of another state, in order to solve a conflict of laws problem. Renvoi developed in the nineteenth century, as a reaction to the territorial theory, in an effort to secure greater uniformity and equity in conflicts decisions.
Reparation
The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted.
Repartione, facienda, writ de
The name of an ancient writ which lies by one or more joint tenants against the other joint tenants, or by a person owning a house or building against the owner of th; adjoining building, to compel the reparation of such, joint property.
Repeal
Legislation. The abrogation or destruction of a law by a legislative act.
Repertory
This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found.
Repetition
Replacement cost
The estimated cost of construct, at current prices, a building with utility equivalent to the building being appraised, using modern materials and current standards, design, and layout, and quality of workmanship, and embodying all the subject's deficiencies, superadquacies, and obsolescence.
Replacement volumes
Volumes which replace books and their pocket parts when the pocket parts cause the books to become too bulky.
Repleader
Practice. When an immaterial issue has been formed, the court will order the parties to plead de novo, for the purpose of obtaining a better issue this is called a repleader.
Replegiare
To redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by putting in legal sureties.
Replevin
Remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and chattels.
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